As a 1up survivor, I too was looking for a new place to call home while frantically trying to save my blogs. I'm just glad I was able to call this place my new internet home. Alot of the people I knew from 1up move here so I was glad I was able to see some familiar faces, but I met some new ones as well. I'll write something about this hopefully today so I'll keep this short. But congrats Pixlbit and congrats everyone!
Celebrating Five Years of PixlBit
The staff of PixlBit commemorates five years of the site.
Jason Ross Celebrates Five Years of PixlBit
I'm not going to write a lot. I figure “Why start now?” PixlBit's been around for five years. It's officially lasted longer than that facebook phone. And that MSN phone with the dot. It beat the Nokia N-Gage. Nice going! Happy birthaversary!
That's not my point, though. I suppose if I were to talk about PixlBit, and what it means, it has to come back to PixlBit's first trip to E3. I traveled to Nick and Chessa's home when they lived a few hours away at the time, with my then roommate Chris. Not any of the Chris's writing things now, but a different Chris. Nick, Chessa, Chris, and I had podcasted together a good number of times for PixlTalk and had plenty of fun, but we hadn't met before.
We hit it off immediately. I won some New Super Mario Bros. Wii while we streamed a playthrough. We had some pizza, had an overall good time, and then got prepared to fly out. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that PixlBit taught me not to say “In real life” when I talk about things that occur on the internet. Here, I met a couple of people based solely on an interest in video games who, by chance, lived close enough to carafly to LA together. Carafly is a word. Maybe it isn't in the dictionary, but it is now a word. I just made it up, which means it is a thing, which means it is real. Deal with it.
Back to the point, it drives home the fact that everyone out there reading this, everyone writing blogs, everyone writing comments, everyone clicking to get away from my piece of this article as fast as they can, they're all people. Real people, like you and me. Like me, at least, I can't speak for you. Even if it's someone I met face-to-face, even if we've never spoken words directly at each other, the things that happen through the internet are something real, and that's something PixlBit taught me.
I suppose the moral of the story is never always challenge me to New Super Mario Bros. Wii/U when you get the chance, because even though I'll win, it's a good chance to make a friend. As long as I can be Blue Toad. Or Koopa Troopa, if we're playing Mario Power Tennis.
P.S.: I was right about Scribblenauts.
PPS.: I was more right about Epic Mickey and those who disagree should be ashamed of themselves!
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